Category: Printed
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The BLM’s Duty to Incorporate Climate Science into Permitting Practices and a Proposal for Implementing a Net-Zero Requirement into Oil and Gas Permitting
Introduction: “Climate risk is investment risk.” The statement applies to asset managers, whether the investment is money or land. “Climate risk is investment risk,” announced Larry Fink […]
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International Energy Investments and Unrecognized States: Opportunities and Risks for Private Actors
The recognition of an entity as a state is pivotal in international law. Whether it be that recognition grants statehood or merely confirms a state’s legal existence, it has important […]
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A Sustainable Olympic Games: Applying the NEPA Framework to Reevaluate Olympic Site Selection
Introduction In the late nineteenth century, Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival of the Olympic Games, which came to life in 1896 as the modern Olympic Games in […]
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The Arkema Chemical Facility Incident: How the Regulation of Reactive Chemicals and the Incorporation of Climate Change Risks in Emergency Response Planning Could Mitigate and Prevent Future Accidental Chemical Releases
Introduction From 2006 to 2016, 60 people died, 17,000 were injured, 500,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes, and more than $2 billion in property damage occurred as a […]
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In Furtherance of National Interest or a Pirate’s Blockade?: The Effect of the Trade War on the U.S. Steel, Aluminum, and Solar Industries
Abstract Much like a pirate blockade, trade wars and tariffs slow commerce and can hurt certain industries. The current United States trade war with China has created economic stressors in […]
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Monuments in Name Only: The Delay Between Designation and Protection of National Monuments
Introduction Public lands are some of America’s most valuable resources. To many, they embody the idealized, picturesque version of the wild and connect us to the land. For […]
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The Conflicting Mandate: Agency Paralysis Through the Congressional Review Act’s Resubmit Provision
Introduction In March 2017, Congress invoked a twenty-one-year-old law—previously used only once—to invalidate a broad swath of late Obama-era regulations. The Congressional Review Act (“CRA” or “Act”), is a once […]
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An Odd Way to Read a Preemption Statute: The Atomic Energy Act, Virginia Uranium, and the Diné Natural Resource Protection Act
Introduction On November 5, 2018, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments for Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren,[2] in which a would-be uranium-mining company challenged Virginia’s thirty-year-old uranium mining […]
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Reimagining What is Necessary: Using Active Management in Wilderness Areas to Mitigate High-Loss Wildfires
Introduction Denver Water is a water utility that serves a million and a half customers in and around the Denver Metro Area.[2] Much of its supply comes […]
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Democratizing Treaty Fishing Rights: Denying Fossil-Fuel Exports in the Pacific Northwest
Indian treaty fishing rights scored an important judicial victory recently when an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s decision in the so-called “culverts case,” which decided that […]